Chapter 34 quotes Flashcards
“Why, this used…
…to be one of the old Casola rooms”
‘But as he followed Madame Olenska…
…into the hall he thought with a sudden hunger of being alone with her at the door of the carriage’
‘her blue eyes…
…wet with victory’
‘In the Old New York code…
…was the tribal ruling around a kinswoman about to be eliminated from the tribe’
‘The young men nowadays…
…were emancipating themselves from the law and business and taking up all sorts of new things. If they were not absorbed in state politics or municipal reform, the chances were that they were going in for Central American archaeology’
‘Nobody nowadays had “colonial”…
… houses except the millionaire grocers of the suburbs’
‘He had been, in short,…
…what people were beginning to call “a good citizen” ‘
‘May had suddenly…
…died - carried off by the infectious pneumonia through which she had nursed their youngest child - he had honestly mourned her’
‘how far they were from the days…
…when the legs of the brass-buttoned messenger boy had been New York’s only means of quick communication!’
‘Fanny Beaufort…
…who had appeared in New York at eighteen, after the death of her parents, had one its heart as much as Madame Olenska had won it thirty years earlier’
‘Instead of being distrustful and afraid of her…
…society took her joyfully for granted. She was pretty, amusing and accomplished: what more did any one want? Nobody was narrow-minded enough to rake up against her the half-forgotten facts of her father’s past and her own origin’
‘It was the day after their arrival in…
…Paris, and the spring sunshine held Archer in his open window’
“Dash it, Dad…
…don’t be prehistoric! Wasn’t she-once- your fanny?”
‘He got up and walked across…
…the Place de la Concorde and the Tuileries gardens to the Louvre. She had once told him that she often there, and he had a fancy to spend the intervening time in a place where he could think of her as perhaps having lately been’
“It’s more real to…
…me here than if I went up”
‘At that, as if it had been…
…the signal he waited for, Newland Archer got up slowly and walked back alone to his hotel’
